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which editor should I choose??

Having had good comment on my first post on this forum (again thanks), here's my second.
I'm deep into html, css, js now, still wondering what to do next (lots of option's) but thats not the question.

I'm still making everything in notepad++. Now, this works fine, but i wonder if there are better options. I hear about dreamweaver, codepen, etc. Whatever course i find on the internet, its with dreamweaver. Now, I'm not going to take one, cause courses are way to expensive, but it give me the idea that dreamweaver is widely accepted/ used.

Should my editor be based on the scripting language? so if i go node.js I need something else (need or is better) then when i go for php or asp?

So, question is not to use what server-side language, there are lots of topics about it, but what editor to use. however.....node.js does appeal to me

Pretty much anything more than a flat text editor (pick one, there are dozens if not hundreds) is a bunch of halfwit bull; and I don't care what language you're working in be it HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP -- or in my case even x86 and 6502 machine language -- all these IDE's with their goofy features just get in the way.

MORE SO crap that has 'preview panes' or worse, WYSIWYGS.

Dreamweaver being this centuries poster child for everything wrong with such bloated garbage tools; if you use it like halfwits did frontpage in the previous century, you'll end up with a bloated inaccessible slow loading non-semantic train wreck. Nothing it can do "for you" has ANYTHING to do with building a website properly, hence the phrase "the only thing you can learn from Dreamweaver is how not to build a website" -- while it is POSSIBLE (though I've never actually seen anyone pull it off) to make an accessible well written site in Dreamweaver by sticking JUST to the code view -- at that point congratulations, you've just thrown money away on a slow loading notepad replacement.

In general though that applies to most all Adobe software when it comes to web development; the only thing about them that can be considered professional grade tools are the people promoting their use.

Pick a text editor (I like flo's notepad 2, but editplus, notepad++, gEdit, text wrangler -- all quite adequate), set up a testing server (or use local testing like XAMPP), test in the actual browsers, deploy using a FTP client...

NONE of which should have a price tag attached.

You do anything else, don't be surprised if people complain about loading times, poor accessibility, and broken layouts.

But of course, people always want the sleazy lazy shortcut, no matter how much it's going to cost them later or doom them to failure.

Dreamweaver is the best software for programming. its better then sublime. its not as fast as sublime but its good. in dreamweaver you have to open only index file. attached files will open automatically. but in sublime you have to open saparit files.

Expression Web 4 is now free and there is nothing wrong with the editor. We dropped Dreamweaver for it and haven't upgraded since cs4. It's our editor of choice. We also use Visual Studio 2012
(I think 2010 is now free), and Notepad++.

Expression Web free download. If you try it be sure to install correctly.

I use Crimson Editor myself--it's older, but it's got keyword highlighting and some auto-indent capabilities. Other than that, it's good old text editor.

Crimson was what I used for most of the previous century. I ended up moving to Flo's notepad2 because it was equally lean, a bit more full featured, and has WAY better character set support and conversion. I had some UTF-8 really annoying me on Crimson that worked a treat on Flo's.

But Crimson is still a favorite of mine, if for no other reason than the big daft dog icon. Who doesn't love a big daft dog?